>Proper work is not just a source of money, but also a source of pride and a feeling of purpose / usefulness. And UBI alone cannot replace this. That can also

>Proper work is not just a source of money, but also a source of pride and a feeling of purpose / usefulness. And UBI alone cannot replace this. That can also be used as pro-UBI argument to countering the argument "With an UBI everyone would quit there job and society would collapse." >"We are sorry, but in our AI-fuelled, robot-driven world you are useless. We have no need for you anymore because you can't program deep neural networks. You just don't have what it takes to be a useful member of our society Well, if robots actually can run everything one day, that is just what they will be told. UBI or not. >Not all people have a bucket list of things they would want to do in their spare time, like contributing to cool open source programs or writing the next Harry Potter series. If they do not want to do one of these things, they can do something similar to what they do now in their job. Or do they not want to do their job? That is quite a cognitive dissonance. Neither wanting to do it nor wanting to stop doing it. If they want to be told to do something against their will, they can find someone to draft them to something. Most open source projects could draft people to do something (If they can't contribute to an open source projects, they are useless after all in the robot driven world). I have 1800 unread mails about my open source project. I really could draft some people to check them out.